David Woodhouse schrieb: > On Sun, 2007-04-29 at 15:03 +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: >> In short: Kernel like for example kernel-2.6.20-1.3066.fc7 are in >> reality 2.6.21-rc6-git5. That's not only confusing to users, it also >> breaks outside kernel modules sometimes; just yesterday I saw a patch in >> 3rd party repo applied that did this... >> >> +-#if LINUX_VERSION_CODE < KERNEL_VERSION(2,6,21) >> ++#if LINUX_VERSION_CODE < KERNEL_VERSION(2,6,20) > > Those issues happen when you ship a kernel which is neither 2.6.20 nor > 2.6.21. They don't magically go away if you call it 2.6.21 when in fact > it's only 2.6.21-rc1. Ehh, I'm not a kernel-developer and no real programmer at all, but I can't follow here. Can somebody be so kind and tell me what I missing here? And sure, I fully understand that compiling a external module might break if the API that gets used changes between x, (x+1)-rc1 and (x+1). But that doesn't happen that often. CU thl _______________________________________________ Fedora-kernel-list mailing list Fedora-kernel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-kernel-list
